Word: wouldn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first two albums, following the top-selling unauthorized concert disk put out last year by Melodiya, the country's sole record label. There is talk of a U.S. tour as well, possibly in June. "We're hoping to sign a few small contracts," Sukachev admits. Still, he says he wouldn't give up the band's underground years for anything. "Those years are our strength," he says. "We'd be nothing without them...
IGNORE THEM, AND MAYBE THEY'LL GO AWAY. Soviet employees are a bit lackadaisical when it comes to customer relations. Said a U.S. executive: "The phone would ring, and our Soviet managers wouldn't answer it. They'd pick up the receiver and hang up. And they didn't understand about taking messages. I would come back to the office, and they'd say, 'Someone called.' I've finally got them to take a number...
What we take here for yogurt is not yogurt, cream is not cream, and milk is not milk. Maybe it's just a bad translation, but our cream is their yogurt, our yogurt is their milk, and our milk is their water. I wouldn't say they cook particularly well in America. They don't use any salt or sugar. Contrary to us, they want to live long; they like the way they live. We also want to live long, but it's because we don't like our life and we hope to live on into the next life...
Perhaps the style wouldn't be all that intolerable if Rizzo could actually come up with anything intelligent or informative to say. But the big guy fails when it comes to that part...
...moved the two people out of there so they wouldn't weigh [the floor] down anymore," Knuff said...